BORDER SECURITY FORCE

New Delhi: A contingent of over two dozen women, including border guarding 'mahila' troops of Border Security Force, have embarked on a maiden 2,300-km camel safari along India's international border with Pakistan.
The all-women team will traverse different terrains in Gujarat, Rajasthan and Punjab on camel backs and the journey is...

Malda (WB): In a suspected case of fratricide, a Border Security Force jawan on Tuesday allegedly opened fire at the force's camp near Malda on Tuesday, killing a colleague and injuring four others.
BSF Director Inspector General, Malda Sector, Raj Singh Rathore, said a BSF personnel belonging to the 20 battalion...

Srinagar: Ahead of US President Barack Obama's visit on Republic Day, security has been heightened across Jammu and Kashmir, primarily along the border areas. Even as ceasefire violations continue, with Pakistan rangers opening fire of border posts in Arnia and Ramgarh on Tuesday, Border Security Force has been instructed to...

New Delhi/ Jammu: After yet another ceasefire violation by Pakistan Rangers on Wednesday, the strong retaliation by Border Security Force troops forced the former to raise the white flag. Pakistan Rangers suffered four casualties while one BSF soldier was killed in the firing in Samba sector of Jammu and Kashmir.
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Jammu/New Delhi: As ceasefire violations along the International Border in Jammu region by Pakistan Rangers enters into its ninth day, IBNLive.com spoke to Border Security Force (BSF) Jammu Region Inspector General Rakesh Kumar Sharma about the reasons that led to the intense exchange of fire between India and Pakistan.
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Jaipur: Indian Air Force Wing Commander Shashank Shekhar, who has been declared a deserter by force, has been caught by the Border Security Force (BSF) near IndoPak border in Rajasthan's Anoopgarh while allegedly trying to cross the border. Shekhar, who hails from Ambala City, had hidden some documents and his...

Srinagar: Even as Prime Minister Narendra Modi criticised Pakistan for making a spectacle out of the talks, it is the residents along the Line of Control that are facing the brunt of the daily ceasefire violations.
Tears well up the eyes of Shah Din as he sits next to the newly...

The government has deployed a fresh contingent of about 1,000 Border Security Force (BSF) personnel in Chhattisgarh to bolster antiNaxal operations in the state.
The specially trained contingent of the paramilitary will be inducted to operate in Kanker district of the state, situated in the southern part of the state just...

Three Naxals were arrested on Tuesday and a cache of arms, ammunition and electronic gadgets seized after security forces busted a Maoist transit camp in Chhattisgarh's Kanker district, police said.
The incident took place at Rampur village forests, close to Mendki river, under Pratappur police station limits, Kanker Superintendent of Police...

New Delhi: Taking a cue from Prime Minister Narendra Modi's advise to his ministers on use of social media, the country's largest border guarding force BSF, has asked its personnel to write emails or blogs about the problems and grievances faced by them.
The first of its kind initiative for a...

Six Naxals have been arrested during separate search operations in the insurgencyhit areas of Chhattisgarh, police said on Wednesday.
Five rebels were apprehended from restive Nibra forests under Rowghat police station limits of Kanker district last evening, Kanker Superintendent of Police R N Dash told PTI.
A joint squad of Border Security...

A naxal, carrying a reward on his head, was arrested during a joint search operation in Maoisthit Kanker district of Chhattisgarh, police said on Sunday.
The cadre identified as Ramesh Ramprasad Boga (35) from Rajnandgaon, was nabbed from the forest of Lohattar police station limits yesterday, a senior police official said.
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Two tiffin bombs, suspected to be planted by Maoists to target security forces and polling parties during Lok Sabha elections, were found in the insurgency-hit Kanker district of Chhattisgarh.
Kanker is among the three Lok Sabha seats going to polls on Thursday in the second phase of Chhattisgarh elections. Besides, two...

A man allegedly crossed over to Pakistan, but has not been handed back to Border Security Force by Pakistani authorities, a senior BSF officer said.
The man crossed the border from near Babliyan outpost on Sunday evening following which a flag meeting was held, IG BSF PC Meena said.
There is no...

Certain "administrative lapses" have been found on the part of BSF personnel involved in last year's Ramban firing incident in Jammu even and the paramilitary will soon begin trial of its six men in connection with the incident.
Sources said Border Security Force (BSF) took over the trial of the case...

The Border Security Force (BSF) will be entrusted the task of guarding the IndiaMyanmar border later this year, the paramilitary forces's chief said on Saturday.
"From this year itself, we will start guarding the 1,624kmlong IndiaMyanmar border that passes through the states of Nagaland, Mizoram, Manipur and Arunachal Pradesh," BSF Director...

India and Pakistan on Saturday agreed that people who inadvertently cross the frontier would be immediately returned to their respective countries. The decision was made during a fiveday biannual meeting of officials of the Pakistan Rangers and India's Border Security Force.
According to a statement issued after the talks, the two...

The Pakistan Rangers and India's Border Security Force on Wednesday discussed ways to counter illegal border crossing and smuggling as part of biannual talks.
The issues figured during the second round of talks at Wagah. A 13member BSF delegation led by Director General Subhash Joshi crossed over to Pakistan via Wagah...

Repolling at two booths in Antagarh Assembly constituency in Chhattisgarhs Maoisthit Kanker district will be held on Saturday, an official said on Wednesday.
Voting did not take place at these booths in the first phase held on 11 November due to Naxal resistance.
The Election Commission has decided to hold repolling in...

Amritsar: The Border Security Force on Saturday killed three Pakistani smugglers at Attari border as they were trying to sneak into Indian territory, BSF officials said.
The Pakistani intruders were shot dead at Mullapur village during the cross firing with night patrolling party of BSF.
The three intruders opened fire when...

Border Security Force DIG Dharminder Parikh said India is prepared to reply to Pakistan as they continue to violate ceasefire. He said, "We are in the strength you can say thrice to them on the borders. We have all kinds of preparation to reply them whatever they will fire we...

India is set to expand the showcase military retreat ceremony along its frontier with Pakistan at Wagah as the government has sanctioned an amount of Rs 24 crore to usher better civic facilities at the location.
The Home Ministry has approved a proposal of the Border Security Force (BSF) to create...

Union Home Minister Sushil kumar Shinde will travel to Uttarakhand on Monday to inaugurate a number of ambitious land projects of central paramilitary forces coming up in the state.
Shinde will inaugurate two battalion location centres of Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) and Border Security Force (BSF) in Sitarganj in Udham Singh...

To address the problem of alcohol misuse and abuse in the force, the BSF,on Wednesday, launched a weeklong alcohol deaddiction programme in association with Alcoholic Anonymous.
BSF's Guwahati Frontier Inspector General S K Srivastava, inaugurating the programme, said so far "our approach to treating alcohol abuse tends to be oldfashioned and...

There was no breach of border fencing by militants involved in twin terror strikes in Jammu region recently in which 10 people, four of them armymen, were killed, a top BSF officer said on Sunday.
A probe was on into the matter and its outcome would be known in twothree days,...

Kolkata: Aimed at improving trade and cultural ties, the West Bengal government has approved setting up of four border "haats" on the India-Bangladesh border, a Border Security Force (BSF) officer said in Kolkata on Saturday.
"As a confidence building measure, we had identified and sought approval for setting up border haats at 32...

Kolkata: With smuggling of fake Indian currency notes from across the Bangladesh border being a major concern, the Border Security Force (BSF) Saturday said it was in the process of setting up machines to detect fake currency at border outposts across West Bengal.
Observing that around 70 percent of the Indo-Bangladesh...

New Delhi: Indian cricket team's batting mainstay Virat Kohli will soon be appointed as the new brand ambassador of the country's second largest paramilitary force BSF.
Kohli has been roped in by the Border Security Force (BSF) in order to bolster the appeal of the 2.5-lakh personnel strong force which is...

Amritsar: Border Security Force has seized eleven kilogram of heroin with a face value of Rs 55 crore in the international market.
Confirming the seizure here on Monday, a BSF official said that the consignment of drug was pushed from Pakistan to India through Bikhiwind Indo-Pak border Sunday night.
It was being...